Quotes About Empathy

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it's right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...

If you want to make a million you don't have to understand money, what you have to understand is people's fears about money

Why do you treat me as they do, as though I were exactly what I want to be. Why do we treat people that way?

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.

The only true source of politeness is consideration.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Caring for but never trying to own may be a further way to define friendship.

We can teach a lot of things, but if the teacher can't relate by talking to a group of friendly students, he'll never be a competent teacher.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

the law has neither eyes, nor ears, nor bowels of humanity; and it turns into marble the hearts of all those that are nursed in its principles.

Why did she thus obstinately cling to an ill-starred, unhappy person?

People don't help much.

they ignore all the effects on other members of society than the ones they have in view. They

The philanthropists and humanitarians have their minds all full of the wretched and miserable whose case appeals to compassion, attacks the sympathies, takes possession of the imagination, and excites the emotions. They

our faith has been dangerously weakened—watered down by a blind and essentially false and cruel sentimentalism.

The truest and deepest pathos in this world is not that of suffering but that of brave struggling.

O it is hard then, as he said, amare hominem humaniter—to love and esteem man as a man, to reverence him such so, as not to be in danger of loving their errors also.

He ran his fingers back and forth over the broad crown of the head of a coon dog named Sounder.

My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

Few of the stories one has it in one's self to speak get spoken, because the heart rarely confesses to intelligence its deeper needs; and few of the stories one has at the top of one's head to tell get told, because the mind does not always possess the voice for them. Even when the voice is there, and the tongue is limber as if with liquor or with love, where is that sensitive, admiring, other pair of ears?